WEBVTT VICTIMS IN A YEAR THAT'S SEENMORE THAN 200 PEOPLE SHOT IN THEMETRO. IT WAS AROUND 1:30 FRIDAYAFTERNOON WHEN A MOTHER HEARDSEVERAL GUNSHOTS. OUTSIDE THEIR HOME AT THE CORNEROF 24TH AND MUHAMMAD ALI -- HER19 YEAR OLD SON, SHOT ONCE INTHE BACK. AS POLICE ARRIVED ON SCENE,NEIGHBORS LIKE VOLUEN COOPERBEGAN TO TAKE NOTICE. >> IT MAKES ME SICK.LAUREN: IN FACT, JUST 20 MINUTESLATER AND A FEW BLOCKS AWAY --ANOTHER SHOOTING. THIS TIME AT 13TH AND MADISON. A WOMAN IN HER 30'S SHOT ONCE INTHE LEG. THE TWO SHOOTINGS, WHICH POLICESAY ARE NOT RELATED, JUST THELATEST IN A YEAR THAT HASALREADY SEEN 230 SHOOTINGS INTHE METRO. >> YOU STEP ON SOMEBODY'S TOES,FIRST THING THEY WANT TO DO ISPULL A GUN.>> AND EVERY DAY OCCURRENCE.LAUREN: THAT'S JAMES WALTON WHOLIVES NOT FAR FROM WHERE THETEEN WAS SHOT. HIS GRANDSON, 25-YEAR-OLDPHILLIP WALTON, WAS MURDEREDJUNE 4TH IN PARKHILL. FOR HIM, THE SCENE WAS HARD TOSTOMACH: >> IT BRINGS BACK MEMORIES.LAURA: -- LAUREN: AND AFTER A CHAOTICAFTERNOON FRIDAY, MANY CALLINGWEST LOUISVILLE HOME PRAYING FORPEACE -- BUT WONDERING IF ITWILL EVER COME. >> IT BOTHERS ME WHEN I COME OUT

It was around 1:30 p.m. Friday when a mother heard several gunshots. Outside their home at the corner of 24th Street and Muhammad Ali Boulevard her son, 19, had been shot once in the back. Then, just 20 minutes later and a few blocks away, LMPD's First Division officers responded to another shooting at 13th Street and Madison Avenue. A woman, in her 30's, was shot once in the leg and transported to U of L Hospital. The two shootings, according to police, are not related. They are the latest in a year that has already seen 230 shootings in the Metro. Police were able to arrest Kennetta Taylor, 35, charging her in connection to that shooting at 13th and Madison. But so far, no arrests have been made in the other shooting.Anyone with information is asked to call the anonymous police tip line at 574-LMPD.

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It was around 1:30 p.m. Friday when a mother heard several gunshots. Outside their home at the corner of 24th Street and Muhammad Ali Boulevard her son, 19, had been shot once in the back.

Then, just 20 minutes later and a few blocks away, LMPD's First Division officers responded to another shooting at 13th Street and Madison Avenue. A woman, in her 30's, was shot once in the leg and transported to U of L Hospital.

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The two shootings, according to police, are not related. They are the latest in a year that has already seen 230 shootings in the Metro.

Police were able to arrest Kennetta Taylor, 35, charging her in connection to that shooting at 13th and Madison. But so far, no arrests have been made in the other shooting.

Anyone with information is asked to call the anonymous police tip line at 574-LMPD.